"Pinnated" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... confounded with this plant, is, I think, erroneous, if it has leaves on, as they are not pinnated, and very different from it. When the Hyoscyamus is in bloom, it has curiously-formed flowers of an uncommonly disgusting hue. The scent of this plant, on bruising it, and its general appearance, render it almost impossible that any one should mistake it. The roots, in the ...
— The Botanist's Companion, Vol. II • William Salisbury
... by that, I suppose," replied Miss Harson, "that it is a very fresh tint; and we are seeing it in its first beauty now. This is the locust tree, and May is its time for leafing out in the tenderest of greens. The pinnate—from pinna, Latin for feather'—leaves are composed of from nine to twenty-five leaflets, which are egg-shaped, with a short point, very smooth, light green above and still lighter beneath. These leaves are much liked by cattle, ...
— Among the Trees at Elmridge • Ella Rodman Church
... veining is called pinnate veining from a Latin word that means 'feather,'" explained Helen. "The other kind of net veining is ...
— Ethel Morton's Enterprise • Mabell S.C. Smith
... affects the low, dense scrub growing in moist situations, and usually fixes its nest between several upright sprays, within 5 or 6 feet of the ground. The nest is cup-shaped, made of dry bamboo-leaves, intermixed with a very few pieces of climber-stems, and thickly lined with old leaf-stalks of some pinnate-leaved tree. Externally it measures about 5.5 inches in diameter by 4 in height; internally 3.5 ...
— The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 • Allan O. Hume
... Tinaja, medium size; zigzag band around the neck, body ornamented with triangles and curved twigs with pinnate leaves. ...
— Illustrated Catalogue of the Collections Obtained from the Indians of New Mexico in 1880 • James Stevenson
... straight shaft to the height of nearly a hundred feet. On the top is a splendid head of leaves like gigantic ostrich plumes, that gracefully curve over on all sides, forming a shape like a parachute. Each leaf is full five yards in length, and of the kind called pinnate—that is divided into numerous leaflets, each of which is itself more than a foot and a half long, shaped like the blade of a rapier. Under the shadow of this graceful plumage the fruit is produced, just below the ...
— Ran Away to Sea • Mayne Reid
... to attract attention by the peculiar beauty of its outlines, the regular subdivision of its branches, its fair proportions and equal balance without any disagreeable formality. Nothing can exceed the gracefulness of its pinnate foliage, hanging loosely from its equally divergent spray, easy of motion, but not fluttering, and always harmonizing in its tints with the season of the year. Notwithstanding the different character, in regard to symmetry, of the ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 6, Issue 35, September, 1860 • Various |
